The Religious Experience

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Across
  1. 6. Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.
  2. 7. An incarnation of a deity.
  3. 9. Liberation from mental afflictions, suffering, and rebirth.
  4. 11. A Chinese and Japanese school emphasizing that all things have Buddha-nature, which can only be grasped when one escapes from the intellectual mind.
  5. 13. The constitutional principle of not giving favored status to any religion.
  6. 15. Sitting meditation, in Zen schools.
  7. 16. Nectar made with sugar and water, symbolizing the sweetness of compassion.
Down
  1. 1. Visual contact with the divine.
  2. 2. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
  3. 3. Small sword worn by Khalsa initiates.
  4. 4. Actions; the law of cause and effect.
  5. 5. A Sikh congregation.
  6. 8. Spiritual teacher.
  7. 10. Belief that there is no deity.
  8. 12. A Sihk temple.
  9. 14. Full awareness of invisible reality.